The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-03-24
GENERAL NE WIS.

At Memphis, son the 18th instant,
1900 bales of cotton were burned.
The Texas cattle drive, now COM
mencing, promises to be fully as large
as usual.
Robert Furnace and Jesse jennings
were run over and killed on the rail-
road near Mokomis, ILL.,, last week.
W. E. Lawton, dealer in phosphate,
New York, has disappeared, leaving
liabilities of about one million dollars.
At Broken Bow, Nebraska, recently,
John Sanderson stabbed his younger
brother to the heart, over a trivial
matter.
The stock on hand of Kentucky
whisky is about 100000, and
Louisville dealers say the market is
glutted.
An election will be held next Sep
TENDER in Tennessee submitting to
the people prohibition amendment
to the Constitution.
John E. Gedhill, the Chicago man
ager of the Ansonia Clock Company,
has gone to Canada, having defaulted
to the extent of $4,000.
The proposition to submit to a vote
of the people prohibition amend
ment to the constitution was defeated
in the Illinois Legislature.
Isaac FL. Vincent, the defaulting
State Treasurer of Alabama, who dis
appeared about three years ago, was
captured in Texas recently.
The Ohio legislature has passed a
bill increasing the Governors salary
to So, 1000. It will not go into effect
until the next administration.
Thirty-nine persons were killed and
ia persons were wounded by the
recent Bussey bridge disaster on the
Boston and Providence Railroad.
The keepers of Cincinnati eating
house were tried Friday for refusing
to permit colored attorney to dine
in their place. The jury disagreed.
The Southern Cotton Seed Oil Com
pany has signed contracts in Phila-
defphia for the machinery for eight
cotton seed oil mills to cost 1886, 900.
The Maine legislature has repealed
the capital punishment law, and life
Imprisonment is substituted for death
in all cases of murder in the first de-
gree.
A tornado swept through Tampa,
Florida, lsat Thursday afternoon. A
number of houses were demolished;
one woman fatally injured and two
children killed.
Thieves, at the point of pistols,
compelled clerks in charge of the
Office of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa
Fe Railroad at Coleman, Texas, to
unlock the safe and deliver over $4,000.
James Fl. Mari, 81 years old, and
Judge Lawrenson, "a, are the patri-
archs of the Postal Department at
Washington. They were both APP
pointed in 1881 by President Andrew
Jackson.
A gang of dangerous counterfeiters
consisting of three men and two
women, who have been operating in
North Lewisburg, Ohio, was broken
up last week by a Government officer,
who seized a lot of bogus coin.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad Com
pany have decided to permanently To-
cate their machine and repair shops
at Little Rock, Ark. The shops are
to be of immense size, and will give
employment to over 1000 men.
The splendid new Richmond Ho-
tel, at Buffalo, New York, was totally
destroyed by fire early laat Friday
morning. Thirty lives were lost, and
sixteen persons seriously injured in
endeavoring to escape from the flames.
Coon hunting seems to be a lucra-
tive sport in some parts of Missouri.
Two hunters recently chopped down
an evident "coon tree" near Trenton
and got three coons, 400 pounds of
honey, and an oyster can in which
was $3.50 in gold.
A Fort Smith ARK special to the
Iimes-Democrat says: Hundreds of
people are coming in by every train,
drawn thither by the real estate boom.
Property goes higher and higher. A
number of big buyers are here
Property has advanced 1000 per cent